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Is it possible to blow your eyeballs out when you sneeze?
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- Posted: skeptive on Mar 25, 2011
- Last Activity: JoseCuervo on Oct 19, 2011
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Is it possible to blow your eyeballs out when you sneeze?
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Discovery Channel (2 statements)
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Answers.com (3 statements)
If you hold your eyelids open and sneeze will your eyeballs fall out
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Yes
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No
Discovery Channel
Myth: Sneezing With Your Eyes Open : Discovery Channel
So, although a sneeze can erupt from your nose at an explosive 200 miles per hour, it can't transfer this pressure into your eye sockets to dethrone your eyeballs.
Myth: Sneezing With Your Eyes Open : Discovery Channel
Finding: BUSTED
HowStuffWorks.com
Discovery Health "How Eyes Are Attached to Head"
And they aren't going to let it roll out on the floor.
Discovery Health "How Eyes Are Attached to Head"
The medial and lateral rectus, superior and inferior oblique and superior and inferior rectus muscles are all attached firmly to the eye.
Answers.com
If you hold your eyelids open and sneeze will your eyeballs fall out
The eyelids have absolutely no effect related to the retention of the eyeballs within their sockets.
Urban Legends Questions including "Is the Carmen Winstead story ...
NO, of course not!
If you hold your eyelids open and sneeze will your eyeballs fall out
NO, of course not!
straightdope.com
The Straight Dope: If you hold your eyelids open while sneezing, will your eyes pop out?
I can assure you with one hundred percent total confidence, Trevor, that you've got nothing to worry about
Yahoo Answers
Is it true when you sneeze then your eye balls pop out of there sockets? - Yahoo! Answers
/ Not true, but enough people (including me) have heard that before, so it gets around and is believed by a large group of people.
amazinghealthtrivia.afexa.com
Amazing Health Trivia » Blog Archive » Open-Eyed Sneezes & Eyeball Pop-Outs
A commonly held belief is that we blink when we sneeze in order to stop our eye-balls from ‘popping out’ of our head (as seen here) – this is nothing more than a legend…a myth told by kids in the schoolyard.
2020aec.com
Myth, Myths, Sneezing, Eyes, Sneezes
The medial and lateral rectus, superior and inferior oblique and superior and inferior rectus muscles are all attached firmly to the eye.
Myth, Myths, Sneezing, Eyes, Sneezes
And they aren’t going to let it roll out on the floor.
Yes
thekkiam.com
Thekkiam.com - Amazing Facts
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs
Thekkiam.com - Amazing Facts
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs
ryansdistrict.com
RD Amazing Facts List 2007 [ Thousands of amazing new facts]
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.